Paediatric sepsis remains a major cause of childhood mortality worldwide, despite substantial changes in its epidemiology, ...

Multiple long-term conditions (MLTC, previously referred to as multimorbidity) are defined as two or more chronic health ...

In all of Kirsty’s life, I never knew her to be afraid. We’ve been in some scary situations as a family: caught in a small ...

In 2025, a government-commissioned, independent, cross-sector report on the decline in UK clinical academia highlighted multiple challenges facing clinical researchers, both those medically qualified ...

With the growing number of children and young people with complex care needs or life-limiting conditions, alternative routes for nutrition have been established (such as gastrostomy feeding). The ...

Objectives Complementary foods should have an increasingly solid texture and be more energy and nutrient dense than breast milk. This study aimed to measure the texture and nutrient content of ...

Objective To collate and systematically review the evidence on the impact of substandard housing on early child development in high-income countries. Design Systematic review. Methods Five databases ...

Objective To describe the risk of death and hospitalisation until adolescence of children after group B streptococcus (GBS) infection during infancy. Design Population-based cohort study. Setting New ...

Department of Paediatrics, Universitair Ziekenhuis Brussel Kinderen, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium If you wish to reuse any or all of this article ...

Objective To establish the relative risks of in utero exposure to lamotrigine (LTG), sodium valproate (NaV) and carbamazepine (CBZ) monotherapy for neurodevelopment. Design Observational cohort study.

Despite the existence of low-cost and effective interventions for childhood pneumonia and diarrhoea, these conditions remain two of the leading killers of young children. Based on feedback from health ...

Correspondence to Marije A Brouwer, Department of Pediatrics, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen 9700 VB, Netherlands; m.a.brouwer{at}umcg.nl Objective Breaking bad news about ...